Elizabeth Warren is calling for more funding for the IRS, after the commissioner said last year that it has had its budget cut by 22% since 2010 thanks to corporate lobbyists and anti-tax extremists.
with about 6 million unprocessed individual tax returns, and closed the filing season last year with over 35 million unprocessed returns, which was four times more than they had before the pandemic.
The lawmakers say that increased funding could help alleviate some of these problems and prevent them from happening in the future. since 2010. This has led to a corresponding 22 percent reduction in staff, including a 32 percent reduction in enforcement staff. Meanwhile, the number of tax filers has increased, compounding the agency’s problems.
These underfunding issues have been brought on by “corporate lobbyists and anti-tax extremists” who have pushed to cut IRS funding over the years, the lawmakers wrote. “Last year, Republican Senators were
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